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Lincoln Heights is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 3,101 people and just one neighborhood, Lincoln Heights is the 375th largest community in Ohio.
Occupations and Workforce
When you are in Lincoln Heights, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 43.00% of Lincoln Heights’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Lincoln Heights is a village of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Lincoln Heights who work in food service (20.94%), healthcare suport services (9.71%), and office and administrative support (7.77%).
Also of interest is that Lincoln Heights has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Setting & Lifestyle
Lincoln Heights is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
Demographics
In Lincoln Heights, just 9.09% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Lincoln Heights in 2022 was $16,218, which is low income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $64,872 for a family of four. However, Lincoln Heights contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Lincoln Heights also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 56.54% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Lincoln Heights is a very ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Lincoln Heights home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lincoln Heights residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Lincoln Heights include European, African, Turkish, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Lincoln Heights is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Lincoln Heights, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
People
Single parenting is hard. But you don't have to tell the neighborhood about it; they already know. 34.3% of this neighborhood's households are run by single mothers, which is a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.8% of American neighborhoods. Further NeighborhoodScout research showed strong statistical correlations among high rates of children living in single parent households, and neighborhood crime, particularly violent crime, neighborhood poverty, and, importantly, the percentage of low weight births and rates of infant mortality.
In addition, one of the unique characteristics of the neighborhood revealed by analysis is that the per capita income of residents here is lower than that found in 99.7% of the neighborhoods in America. Also of note, 75.7% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.
Modes of Transportation
Our research reveals that 93.9% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 99.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Occupations
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 43.0% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.2% of American neighborhoods.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more African and Sub-Saharan African ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 14.2% of this neighborhood's residents have African ancestry and 14.2% have Sub-Saharan African ancestry.
The Neighbors
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Lincoln Heights are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 99.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 75.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 99.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 43.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 28.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.5%), and 11.4% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (4.0%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Lincoln Heights, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Sub-Saharan African (14.2%). There are also a number of people of African ancestry (14.2%).
Getting to Work
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (54.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (93.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
